Victory Hooks

I'm going to need more hooks. I'm thinking about going with a sickle style. Mostly I've used owner hooks the past year, I like the sharpness of them, but I haven't seen a sickle hook from them and they are expensive. I've only ordered hooks from Barlow. They have, Mastad and VMC with similar prices, then Victory a little more expensive, and then Owner at about 4 to 5 times the price.

Any experience with the Victory sickle or Aberdeen for that matter. I found a couple topics about the Victory hook where people got them in to try out, but not much follow up on how they actually worked when fishing.

I mostly fish with a trout magnet if that makes a difference. looking to make 1/32 ball head jigs, so most likely #6 hook to match up with the length of the Trout magnet body.

I’d ask Patrick at Woods and Water Outdoors. (Fridays86 here on cdc) he sells and uses Victory hooks and could probably give you good information about them.

I order them from Patrick and haven’t had any issues with the victory hook or anything I’ve bought from him always great products. Strongly recommend.


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I have used Victory sickle and Aberdeen style hooks from Patrick the last few years. Mainly for bluegills and sunfish. I feel they work great.

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Aberdeen style.

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Sickle style.

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Sickle as well


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I like the Victory sickles but get some bad hooks in every box so keep an eye on them. I buy from Woods & Water as well. Great service and the prices are good. Just ordered 1000 #8 sickles this week.

I buy my jigheads already poured and dont know which brand of hook this person uses. I can tell you they are sharp sickle hooks. I'll never go back to J hooks since using sickles.

Thanks for the replies,

Talked with Patrick, a little bit ago, very helpful, with a couple questions I had about tying material. Only ordered Jig hooks for now. I'll have to learn more about tying before I order more tying material. I haven't tied in a couple of years. What I have tied is a very simple jig. Basically just a 1/32 shad dart head with Craft fur for a tail, with just tread at the neck to hold the fur on.

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Originally Posted by JUNGLEJIMJIGS

I like the Victory sickles but get some bad hooks in every box so keep an eye on them. I buy from Woods & Water as well. Great service and the prices are good. Just ordered 1000 #8 sickles this week.

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This has been my experience. I buy my jigheads from Patrick and there may be one bad hook per 100 jig heads. They still well worth buying in my opinion.

Craft fur with a thread neck makes a fine jig. Can't wait to see what you create!

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Chipmunk dubbing, size 8 Victory sickle.

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What head is this if you dont mind me asking?

guess I'm the odd one out!! LOL I have old school Eagle claws j hooks and some little Nasties, Mustad old school and Matzuos. I haven't had a problem with any of them. With what I have poured and painted plus another 20,000 hooks I don't see myself buying any. Sorry if this doesn't help.